ἀποστάζω
drip down, distil
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποστάζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 5:3 ἀποστάζω for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:
- Proverbs 10:31 ἀποστάζω The mouth of the righteous drops wisdom: but the tongue of the unjust shall perish.
- Proverbs 10:32 ἀποστάζω The lips of just men drop grace: but the mouth of the ungodly is perverse.
- Song of Solomon 4:11 ἀποστάζω Your lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is as the smell of Libanus.
About this word
About this word
ἀποστάζω (apostázō), “drip down, distil,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
